eachlach
Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish echlach (“messenger, courier; attendant”).
Noun
eachlach m or f (genitive singular eachlaigh or eachlaí, nominative plural eachlaigh or eachlacha)
- courier
- attendant, messenger
- Synonyms: scéalaí, teachtaire
Declension
As masculine noun:
Declension of eachlach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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As feminine noun:
Declension of eachlach
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- baneachlach (“female courier, messenger; horsewoman”)
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish echlach (“prostitute”), from Old Irish.
Noun
eachlach f (genitive singular eachlaí, nominative plural eachlacha)
Declension
Declension of eachlach
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
eachlach | n-eachlach | heachlach | t-eachlach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “eachlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 echlach (‘messenger’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 echlach (‘prostitute’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “eachlach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish nouns with multiple genders
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish literary terms
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